Detachable soap tray for scrub buckets and the like



Mamh 8, 1932. E H WILLIAMSON 1,848,450

DETACEABLE SOAP TRAY FOR SCRUB BUCKETS AND THE LIKE pril 8, 1929 atented Mar. 8, 1932 UNI'I'QED STATES ETHEL H. WILLIAMSON, OF $53. LOUIS, 'MISSOUBI r i DETACHABLE'SOAP TRAY non sc'aunnucxnrs AND rnn IKE] Application filed April'8, 1929. Serial No. 353,288.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in a soap tray and has for its primary Object the purpose of provld ing the tray with means whereby it can be quickly attached or detached to or from the rim of a bucket.

Another object of the invention is in providing the detachable soap tray with means for securing it to the rim of a bucket in a man- 1 ner wherein the liquid contained in the tray can drain into the bucket.

v A further object of the invention is in providingthe tray with a series of depending prongs for cooperable engagement with the the bucket. o

Other and further objects will appear in the specification and be specifically pointed out in the appended claims reference being 0 had to the accompanying drawings, exempliing drawings 1 designates ametallic bucket havingthe usual carrying bail 2, said bucket having the usual beaded rim 3 and adapted to v be mounted on the rim 3 in this improved soap tray 4;.

r The soap tray 4 is provided with a bottom wall 5 having a curved front edge 6 which conforms approximately to'th'e curvature of the rim 3 of the bucket and extending up wardly from the bottom wall 5 is a wall 7 which extends around the side andrear edges of the bottom wall and around the opposite ends of the edge 6 as designated at 8.

Extending from the front edge 6 of the bottom wall 5 are apair of spaced depending legs 9 and disposed between the legs 9 is a relatively long depending leg 10, said leg r 10 also being extended from the front edge 0!) 6 of the bottom wall 5.

side wall of a bucket for securing the tray to ,In 'themanufacture of a soap trayof this character andfrom the disclosure ofthe drawings, the legs 9 and 10are formed in:-

tegral with the bottom' wall ,5 althoughif desired the legs'9 and 10"can be made separate and secured in a well known manner to the undersideofthe bottom Va-I1 5 and depended therefrom but in the instance of this disclosure, during theformation of the leg 101-the material immediately adjacent the front'edge'fi-of the bottom wall 5 is buckled upwardly and downwardly as. designated at 11 and'be-ntunder and rearwardly of the wall 5 as designated'at12 and is-thenbent forwardly and'downwardly as shown'in Fig. '2,

the leg 10 being disposedrearwardly of the legs 9. i Y

In-mou-nting this improved-soap tray t a bucketTwhich williserve, as ;a holder for cleaning'elements such as barsoap and a sponge, the legs 9 and 10 are engaged overlappingly of the side wall 13 of the bucket 1 in which the legs 9 WlllbB disposed against the inner periphery of the wall 13 while the Y leg 10.will engage the outer periphery of the wall. and as the legs 9 and 10 vare made somewhat resilient there is a tendency for said legs to cling against the wall 13 of the bucket thereby securely holding the tray in position on the rim 3 of the bucket.

The vertical portion 11 of the leg '10 and the forward portions 8 of the upwardly inclining wall 7 of the tray& will provide abut ments for preventing the cleaning elements supported in the tray from falling therefrom into the bucket.

Any liquid content forming in the tray will drain forwardly into the bucket by.

traversing the legs 9 and the depending apron portions 14 formed between a respective leg 9 and the leg 10. The flowing of the liquid or water content from the tray being augmented'by the groove 15 which is formed in each of the legs 9. The groove 15 of'each leg 9 and the groove 16 formed in the leg 10 provide a construction for stiffening the legs.

When the soap tray is secured in position as described on the bucket, the bucket can be moved from place to place and the soap tray 4 will be carried thereby and for detaching the tray from the bucket a mere pulling apart movement with respect to the bucket and the tray is efi'ected in which the legs 9 and 10 will be withdrawn from clinging engagement with the wall of the bucket.

What I claim is:

1. A soap tray having a bottom wall, and a series of integrally formed prongs depending therefrom, said prongs providing means for cooperably engaging the tray to the side Wall of a bucket, one of said prongs being intermediately disposed and adapted to engage the outside of the bucket and having an upwardly projecting part.

2. A detachable soap tray for a bucket comprising abottom wall having a circular side edge for conformity with the rim of the bucket, a pair of longitudinally grooved depending prongs for cooperation with the inside of the side wall of the bucket extended from the bottom wall of the tray adjacent the circular side edge thereof, said bottom wall having its circular edge portion projecting over the rim of the bucket, and a centrally disposed prong for engagement with the outside of the bucket having an upwardly extending art.

3. A tray or a bucket comprising sheet material having a pair of spaced integrally formed depending prongs, a third integral prong depended from the tray between said pair of prongs being out of bucket engaging alinement therewith, and an apron portion I formed on the tray between said prongs.

ETHEL H. WILLIAMSON. 

